{"product_id":"how-to-love-a-jamaican-1","title":"How to Love a Jamaican","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.' Zadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Impressive' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A summer must-read' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eOprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's 15 Favourite Books of 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThere is a way to be cruel that seems Jamaican to me.\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eHow to Love a Jamaican\u003c\/i\u003e, about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and Midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ‘Light Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands’, an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In ‘Mash Up Love’, a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother – the prodigal son of the family – stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In ‘Bad Behavior’, a mother and father leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In ‘Mermaid River’, a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In ‘The Ghost of Jia Yi’, a recently murdered international student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in ‘Shirley from a Small Place’, a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe winner of the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e’s Plimpton Prize for ‘Bad Behavior’, Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential young authors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49790667653464,"sku":"9781509883592","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781509883592.jpg?v=1778483766","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/how-to-love-a-jamaican-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}